The Mandates Commission The main subject of discussion in the
Mandates Com- mission now meeting in Geneva is the Report of the Shaw Committee on the Palestine disturbances (published as a White Paper last week) together with the Annual Report of the British Government on the administration of the Palestine Mandate. On Tuesday, Dr. Drummond Shiels, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, made a capital speech which illuminated much that had been left obscure. He scouted the suggestion that the recent check to Jewish immigration had anything to do with the representations of the Arab delegation in London. He pointed out that there has been no cancellation of per- mits, but that certain provisions had been introduced so as to allow of proper investigation of land and migration questions by Sir John Hope Simpson. It is no bad thing that a British representative should have stated plainly that the Government have no intention of abandoning their dual responsibilities—those of administration and of establishing the Jews in Palestine. Only propagandists maintain that the two arc incompatible.
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